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LEDOCARPUM pedunculare. 
Long-stalked Ledocarpum. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. OxALIDEIS affine. 
LEDOCARPUM Desf. — Calyx 5-phyllus, imbricatus, subeequalis, 
bracteis decem linearibus involucratus. Petala 5, patentia, obtusa, æqualia. 
Stamina 10, hypogyna, equalia; filamenta subulata; anthere: oblonge, 
innate. Ovarium subrotundum, 5-loculare, ovulis plurimis distichis. Stigma 
5-lobum, sessile. Capsula vestita, 5-locularis, polysperma, apice loculicidö- 
5-valvis. Semina minima, compressa, marginata. Embryo incurvus; in axi 
albuminis carnosi, cotyledonibus linearibus, planis, subinvolutis. Suffrutex 
Chilensis, foliis alternis, oppositisve, 3-partitis, exstipulatis, floribus magnis, 
Solitariis, terminalibus. 
L. pedunculare ; foliis sepias alternis: laciniis linearibus pilosis, pedunculis 
foliis multó longioribus. 
Suffrutex ramis strictis, gracilibus, dense foliosis. Folia sepiús alterna, 
nunc opposita, 3-partita, glauca, pubescentia, exstipulata. Flores terma- 
nales, longè pedunculati, lutei, ZEnothere biennis colore et facie. Bractex 
involucri lineares, acute, calyce paulo breviores. Sepala subequalia, ob- 
longo-linearia, acuta, pallide luteo-viridia, nunc apice biloba. Stigmata 
atropurpurea. Ovarium lanatum, album. Ovula subrotunda, foramine 
(fig. 6 a) propé basin, apice nuclei exserto. Semina margine membranaceo 
interrupto, nunc oblique in latus decurrente, hilo minimo sublaterali 
(fig. 9-10 b). Embryo cylindricus, in axi albuminis carnosi, radiculá ad 
extremitatem acutiorem (fig. 10 a) seminis versá, cotyledonibus versús hilum 
recurvis, et dein lateraliter involutis (fig. 11). 
This is one of the plants collected by the late Mr. 
M‘Rae for the Horticultural Society, during his residence 
in Chile, in 1825. Two individuals only were raised from 
his seeds, one of which flowered in the Chiswick Garden 
last August. In a favourable summer, 1t would succeed 
very well out of doors; but it will, at all times, be neces- 
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